Writing Archive
Essays, commentary, and Bible-study writing carried over from the original site and organized for easier reading.
Matthew Chapter 9 is basically Jesus speed-running miracles like he’s trying to unlock every achievement before dinner. Paralytic guy? Healed. Tax collector? Recruited. Bleeding woman? Fixed by cloak-contact. Dead girl? “She’s just asleep,” apparently.…
Matthew Chapter 8 is where Little Maddie stops being a sermon-heavy morality lecture and turns into a full-blown supernatural roadshow. Jesus comes down from the mountain, immediately starts healing people, and somehow everyone acts…
Jesus wraps up the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew chapters 6–7, and honestly? For once, the guy has some notes we can work with. This episode digs into Jesus calling out religious theater,…
Matthew Chapter 5 gets the full Sacrilegious Discourse treatment in this Q&A breakdown of the Sermon on the Mount, where Jesus climbs a mystery mountain, sits down like an ancient rabbinic professor, and starts…
Matthew Chapter 7 wraps up the Sermon on the Mount, and Jesus is apparently here to say: stop judging people, stop being a hypocrite, maybe stop hoarding wealth, and for the love of all…
Jesus continues the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew Chapter 6, and honestly? A surprising amount of it sounds like a direct subtweet at modern performative Christianity. Public prayer? Knock it off. Announcing your…
Matthew chapters 2–4 get the full atheist Q&A treatment, and wow does the New Testament come out swinging with prophecy claims held together by theological duct tape. This episode digs into the Magi, Herod’s…
Matthew Chapter 1 came out swinging with genealogy, messiah marketing, and some suspiciously convenient theological paperwork. In this Q&A episode, we slow way down and unpack why Matthew starts the New Testament with a…
Jesus finally gets his big red-letter sermon moment in Matthew Chapter 5, and wow, does he come out swinging with bumper-sticker theology, impossible moral standards, and some casual “maybe cut off your hand” energy.…
Jesus gets baptized, immediately wanders into the wilderness, fasts for 40 days and 40 nights, and then Satan shows up with the spiritual equivalent of a bad frat dare: “Turn rocks into bread,” “jump…
